Plate 312. 
HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE, MRS. JOHN 
BERNERS. 
The Rose is so generally popular a flower, that we make no 
apology for figuring another of our new English varieties, and 
especially as it is one of whose quality and good characteris¬ 
tics we have not the slightest doubt. 
The complaint that is so often made against other florists’ 
flowers (and we must claim the Rose as belonging to that class), 
that they continue so short a time in bloom, and give so little 
return for the amount of care that they require, cannot be 
made against the Rose. Any one who has a fair collection of 
this beautiful flower may be tolerably sure of obtaining blooms 
from the end of May until the end of October, and indeed very 
often, if the situation be favourable and the season ad all open, 
up to nearly Christmas-day; and we have iioav obtained so many 
fine flowers of nearly every shade of colour found in the Rose 
of such hardy constitution, that we need not now, as formerly, 
have to put up with weakly-constitutioned plants, because they 
produced fine flowers. Francois Lachanne , Madame Furtado , 
Louis XIV., and some others, while they will grow in some 
very favoured localities, are in most places with difficulty kept 
alive; and now, in Madame Victor Verdier , Pierre Xottincj , 
Monsieur Boncenne , and others, we have plants of fine habit, 
and with flowers of equally fine quality. 
It is because Mrs. John Berners is a fine autumnal bloom ins: 
Rose that Ave have been led into these remarks. It will be at 
once seen that the shape of the fioAver is very compact; the 
colour is very bright and fresh, Avhile it is perfectly distinct 
from any Rose groAvn, and will be indispensable alike to the 
